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From: nagel@blanche.ics.uci.edu (Mark Nagel)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Weird Problem with cat
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Date: 24 Nov 88 17:51:04 GMT
References: <41@eplrx7.UUCP> <PS72234.88Nov22020044@naakka.tut.fi>
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In-reply-to: ps72234@naakka.tut.fi (Pertti Suomela)

In article <PS72234.88Nov22020044@naakka.tut.fi>, ps72234@naakka (Pertti Suomela) writes:
|In article <41@eplrx7.UUCP> mcneill@eplrx7.UUCP (mcneill) writes:
|
|   eplrx7 {root} % cat ~mcneill/.login
|   cat: write error bad file number
|
|Tcsh (I don't know if you were running it) contains a bug.

It isn't just tcsh -- csh has the same bug.  So the problem is in
the original csh source, not in anything extra tcsh brings along.
What the actual problem is?  I'm as clueless as the next person!  If
anyone knows what's going on here, please, feel free to give us a
hint...

Mark D. Nagel
  UC Irvine - Dept of Info and Comp Sci | radiation n. 1. the act or process
  nagel@ics.uci.edu             (ARPA)  | of radiating.  2. smog with an
  {sdcsvax|ucbvax}!ucivax!nagel (UUCP)  | attitude.